#LameDuck

[lasseling]

New FTC Decision Could Force Businesses Across Country to Comply with DEI Agenda, Commissioner Warns

Lame-duck President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just issued a new decision that could force businesses across the country to comply with the Democrats’ radical diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Tomorrow (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."

#15yrsago Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon https://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/OpenBeacon_with_OpenAMD/

#15yrsago RIP, Forrest J Ackerman https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ackerman6-2008dec06-story.html

#15yrsago Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google https://memex.craphound.com/2008/12/05/googling-security-book-that-opens-your-eyes-to-how-much-you-disclose-to-google/

#10yrsago 75% of American silent feature films lost https://variety.com/2013/film/news/library-of-congress-only-14-of-u-s-silent-films-survive-1200915020/

#10yrsago NSA collecting unimaginable quantities of mobile phone location data for guilt-by-association data-mining https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

#10yrsago Democratic lawmakers share a squalorous house in DC https://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/index.html

#10yrsago Rob Ford police document: allegations of heroin use and more https://torontolife.com/category/city/toronto-politics/2013/12/04/new-bombshells-from-police-documents-suggest-rob-ford-may-have-tried-heroin-been-blackmailed/

#10yrsago NYPD shoot at unarmed man, hit bystanders, charge man for making them shoot https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-charged-with-wounding-bystanders-shot-by-police-near-times-square.html?smid=pl-share

#10yrsago Orange UK plumbs the depths of insulting, stupid marketing, finds a new low https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/05/orange-uk-plumbs-the-depths-of-insulting-stupid-marketing-finds-a-new-low/

#5yrsago What it’s like to be a woman reporter on a cryptocurrency cruise where nearly all the other women are sex-workers https://web.archive.org/web/20181205144647/https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/

#5yrsago See you in court: amid protests, shameless Wisconsin GOP neuters the incoming governor in an all-night, lame-duck session https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/1205/Wisconsin-GOP-pass-slew-of-measures-during-lameduck-session

#5yrsago British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf

#5yrsago The longest-serving Congressman in US history proposes a four fixes for American democracy https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/john-dingell-how-restore-faith-government/577222/

#5yrsago RIP, George HW Bush: a mass-murderer and war-criminal https://theintercept.com/2018/12/05/george-h-w-bush-1924-2018-american-war-criminal/

#5yrsago Trump cybersecurity advisor Rudy Giuliani has no idea how the internet works https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/rudy-giuliani-doesnt-seem-to-know-how-the-internet-works.html

#5yrsago Not just breaches: Never, ever use Quora https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/

#5yrsago Obamacare study: 25% decline in home delinquencies among newly insured poor people https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/how-access-to-obamacare-cuts-late-housing-payments

#5yrsago Poland rejects the EU’s copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/poland-saved-europe-acta-can-they-save-us-acta2

#1yrago Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/#wouldnt-start-from-here Banning surveillance ads and banning drm as good politics

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[my-mt-heart]

I'm one of the Doubting Thomases that think Caryl will not go canon in the finale. There are too many clues that point to it not happening, most obviously including the blatant lack of meaningful conversation between the two longest standing characters for the entire season. It has felt like a complete retcon of their relationship after the intimacy of last season, which I'm fairly certain is largely due to studio meddling (aka Gimple). It's bittersweet that Kang has been such a lameduck showrunner this season after bringing so much emotional truth to the table in S10 only to have it all fall apart with a clumsy plotline that didn't belong in a sunset season.

But it's nice to know others still maintain hope for Caryl. People are free to make up their own minds.

If one of the rumored yet-to-be spinoffs is for Carol I'm not sure I could stomach to watch it because I've lost trust in the entire franchise being able to tell a meaningful story. Though I'm sure Melissa would make the most of it as she has all these years. She's right, Carol has more story to tell, but we'll have to leave it to the fanfic writers to truly do it justice. Or, perhaps you and SF could join forces and write it? I would totally crowdfund that project. As I'm sure many would.

But in the meantime, here's to all the writers that kept the torch burning all these years and made sense when there was none. Thank you! Please keep writing, writers! We need you now more than ever to keep our love of Caryl alive. You are the unsung (and often under appreciated) heroes of our fandom.

But the fact that Kang did bring so much emotional truth to S10 should tell us something about S11, shouldn’t it? Did the story suffer because Angela simply lost her touch, nothing more or less, or could there have been too many cooks in the kitchen? Consider the power structure, the fact that even showrunners have people to answer to. Consider what past seasons looked like. I know what makes sense to me, but everyone’s free to make up their own minds just like you said.

As for Caryl, you say all the signs point to no canon, which is interesting because I see the seeds Kang planted to potentially get us there. I just think it’s a matter of whether or not bts shenanigans stopped her from pulling the trigger, which we’ll find out soon. Am I happy with Caryl’s story so far? No, not at all. Again, like you said, the lack of meaningful conversation and emotional realism is super frustrating. But I still think there’s reason to hope for something good in the end. 

I’m super wary of the spinoffs too. All we’re asking for is good storytelling, but so far it seems like all we’re getting is gimmicks. I’ll talk more about it on Sunday. I agree the fic writers in this fandom are the unsung heroes, and I hope they’ll find inspiration to keep writing. I hope to make room for Caryl content too :) 

[sqewed0722]

All this character build-up of Jon Snow wasted. All these Easter eggs throughout the show certainly got scrambled. The Prince that was Promised became a lameduck: he wasn’t the one to kill the Night King; he didn’t even ascend the Iron Throne to usher in a new golden age to Westeros. He just got exiled for killing Daenerys, when he was within all legal rights ( at least in the context of their world), to do so.

[recentlyheardcom]

Ohio GOP aims to change voting laws in Lameduck session

Ohio GOP aims to change voting laws in Lameduck session

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s election chief on Thursday defended a lameduck push to demand a supermajority of voters to pass some constitutional amendments, a move that came the same day as new voter restrictions were added to a major rewrite of Ohio’s election laws. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said requiring a 60% supermajority to change Ohio’s constitution would be “a victory for…

[timlussier]

11/15/2022: Six years ago today I wore TeslaTim hat as Trump beat Obama and they met behind me in White House. - today GOP flipped Congress makes Biden lameduck but last time we fired Pelosi was 2012 I was paid Romney staffer v Obama in ‘12 Election. Yes today is 18 years for me in politics includes 9 elections. Hate or love me I keep fighting so we all can pursue happiness.

[omg-on-a-budget]

"It was pretty clear that by the end of that speech that President Biden gave it was the beginning of the lame-duck presidency," she said. "He has lost the trust and confidence of every member of the military and the military families I’m proud to be a part of. He’s lost the trust and confidence of our allies who are now negotiating without us because they don’t know why we’re going what we’re doing. He’s lost the trust and confidence of the American people."

[jonostroveart]

Lame Duck

[jonathandesverneyusanews]

Lame-duck Trump is determined to execute as many people as he can before Inauguration Day

Lame-duck Trump is determined to execute as many people as he can before Inauguration Day

Donald Trump and William Barr got the go-ahead for capital punishment last summer, and they are not going to let a little thing like a presidential transition interrupt their killing spree. On Thursday night, Brandon Bernard became the second person executed since Election Day, with four more executions planned before Inauguration Day, including one on Friday, just a day after Bernard. Bernard’s…

[socialsf]

Thanks Hannah McKay 📸 @reuters for this #amazingphoto #lameduck #pardonsturkey https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBdl6IhZTA/?igshid=1u7qq8lj2ysac

[wataplease]

#bidenharris2020 #clearwinner #LameDuck (at Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjj_GoDmW1/?igshid=3hkf12jhmu6q

[christian-zich]

Morning everybody. Yesterdays walk in the fog. A few calm minutes after an exciting weekend. Still happy about the outcome of the election. #trump #bidenharris2020 #enjoythemoment #error262 #pb5m #joewedidit #lameduck (hier: Kleinschwarzach, Bayern, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHXPx3whtV9/?igshid=1uorugtj3qoyq

[artofjosecabrera]

Poster I did a few years back! Says it all! #getout #thejerkmovie #lameduck #justice https://www.instagram.com/p/CHVzBAchyw5/?igshid=1te2yy8mslwjr

[extraordinairethegreat]

We not done roasting yo ass yet .... you maybe feeling these darts for the rest of your life son #donaldtrump #lameduck https://www.instagram.com/p/CHTp_yXB4c4/?igshid=1ktbolrbks5b

[tsbg]

#lameduck https://www.instagram.com/p/CHS_TE3pDyx/?igshid=g29ojr4vxkfb

[stephscanvic]

Est-ce qu’au bout de la nuit on saura si on est sortis de la nuit ? En attendant je vais rêver que cette image ne soit plus qu’un... cauchemar. ・・・ A little selection of my Trumps @adria_fruitos #trump #trumppolitics #president #uspresident #donaldtrump #lameduck #adriafruitosillustration #dumptrump #dumptrump2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHJWR_xgshN/?igshid=2nqaxqce44z5